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Playboy Laughs
- The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy
- Written by: Patricia Farmer
- Narrated by: Denise Shearer
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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Following her success with Playboy Swings, Patty Farmer looks at Playboy’s relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs. Playboy Laughs invites listeners onto the sets of the organization’s groundbreaking TV shows, Playboy Penthouse and Playboy After Dark. These popular variety series brought top-tier comedians, impressionists, and monologists—as well as the finest musicians—into people’s homes each week.
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Playboy Laughs
- The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy
- Narrated by: Denise Shearer
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release Date: 20-11-23
- Language: English
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Predator
- A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
- Written by: Ander Monson
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides listeners through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream white male American culture.
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Predator
- A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 11-04-23
- Language: English
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Music for Prime Time
- A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
- Written by: Jon Burlingame
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
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Music composed for television had, until recently, never been taken seriously by scholars or critics. Catchy TV themes, often for popular weekly series, were fondly remembered but not considered much more culturally significant than commercial jingles. Yet noted composers like John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Jerry Goldsmith learned and/or honed their craft in television before going on to major success in feature films.
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Music for Prime Time
- A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 21 hrs and 6 mins
- Release Date: 28-03-23
- Language: English
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This Time It's Personal
- A Monster Kid's History of Horror Memories and Experiences
- Written by: B Harrison Smith
- Narrated by: B Harrison Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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I was a “Monster Kid” and “The Weird Kid, The Horror Movie Kid.” I found out early…horror is always personal. Now I make horror for a living. It shouldn’t just be WATCHED. Horror should be ENJOYED. This isn’t some stuffy analysis telling you what’s good or bad. Instead, it’s a tour of the 1930s through the 1980s—a personal account of how the best and worst of this era gave us so many memories and experiences that impacted our own lives. It’s fun…just how horror should always be.
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This Time It's Personal
- A Monster Kid's History of Horror Memories and Experiences
- Narrated by: B Harrison Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release Date: 14-04-23
- Language: English
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A Disturbance in the Force
- How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened
- Written by: Steve Kozak
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Even by the standards of the 1970s, even compared to Jar-Jar Binks, the legendary 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special is a peerlessly cringeworthy pop-culture artifact.
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A Disturbance in the Force
- How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 15-11-23
- Language: English
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Daughter of the Dragon
- Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
- Written by: Yunte Huang
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy.
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Daughter of the Dragon
- Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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The Value Gap
- Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
- Written by: Courtney Brannon Donoghue
- Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution, examining the realities facing women working in the industry during this transformative moment.
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The Value Gap
- Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere
- Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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Monsters on the Couch
- The Real Pyschological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies
- Written by: Brian A. Sharpless
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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From psychologist, researcher, and horror film enthusiast Brian A. Sharpless comes Monsters on the Couch, an exploration into the real-life psychological disorders behind famous horror movies. Accounts of clinical syndromes every bit as dramatic as those on the silver screen are juxtaposed with fascinating forays into the science and folklore behind our favorite movie monsters.
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Monsters on the Couch
- The Real Pyschological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Lena Horne
- Goddess Reclaimed
- Written by: Donald Bogle
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Lena Horne’s life and career are truly remarkable in American film history. She was the first Black performer to become a true star—to receive the kind of glamour treatment at the fabled MGM that the studio had previously given to the likes of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, and Ava Gardner.
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Lena Horne
- Goddess Reclaimed
- Narrated by: Donald Bogle
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-23
- Language: English
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Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle
- The Inspiring, Untold Story of the Making of a Holiday Classic
- Written by: Michael Keane
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Professor and cultural historian Michael Keane reveals much in this nostalgia-inducing book packed with original research and interviews. Keane compellingly shows that the ultimate broadcast of the Christmas special—given its incredibly tight five-month production schedule and the decidedly unfavorable reception it received by the skeptical network executives who first screened it—was nothing short of a miracle. Keane explains why the show, despite its technical shortcomings, has become an uplifting and enduring triumph embraced by millions of families every Christmas season.
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Charlie Brown's Christmas Miracle
- The Inspiring, Untold Story of the Making of a Holiday Classic
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
- The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
- Written by: Foster Hirsch
- Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
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Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, Cinemascope and Vistavision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios, the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties
- The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher—Television
- Narrated by: Foster Hirsch
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
- Release Date: 10-10-23
- Language: English
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La bella confusione
- Written by: Francesco Piccolo
- Narrated by: Lino Musella
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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Il 1963 è stato l’anno di Fellini e di Visconti. Un anno decisivo per il cinema italiano, che ha visto la nascita di Otto e mezzo e Il Gattopardo. Ma prima di diventare i capolavori che ben sappiamo erano due incredibili scommesse, nonché il campo di battaglia tra due artisti rivali e profondamente diversi: mentre Claudia Cardinale cambiava il colore dei capelli secondo il capriccio di chi la dirigeva, l’intero contesto culturale italiano si stava preparando a sposare l’una o l’altra visione del cinema e del mondo.
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La bella confusione
- Narrated by: Lino Musella
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Release Date: 15-09-23
- Language: italian
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Anime Impact
- The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation
- Written by: Chris Stuckmann
- Narrated by: Jackson Heaton
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
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Japanese animation—or anime—holds a special place in the hearts of countless fans around the globe. Since the early days of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy to Makoto Shinkai’s astounding success with Your Name, anime has left an undeniable impact on our culture. Anime Impact explores the impression the medium has left on various fans with detailed discussions on television shows and movies from the 1960s all the way to the present.
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Anime Impact
- The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation
- Narrated by: Jackson Heaton
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 19-09-23
- Language: English
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No Crying in Baseball
- The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
- Written by: Erin Carlson
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one‑of‑a‑kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball. But Penny Marshall's genre outlier became an instant classic and significant aha moment for countless young women who saw that throwing like a girl was far from an insult. Part fly‑on‑the‑wall narrative, part immersive pop nostalgia, No Crying in Baseball is for those who love stories about subverting gender roles as well as fans of the film who remain passionate thirty years after its release.
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No Crying in Baseball
- The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
- Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release Date: 05-09-23
- Language: English
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Retro Active Television
- An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV's Social Circuitry
- Written by: Herbie J Pilato, Eric Scott - foreword
- Narrated by: Herbie J Pilato, Eric Scott
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
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Ever wonder what the people who bring us our TV entertainment are thinking? Television and pop culture historian and author Herbie J Pilato has, and now takes listeners on a provocative and entertaining look into the agenda behind TV shows and the resulting trends. Even when it seemed television programming was primarily mindless, there was serious thought behind what audiences were presented. The networks, after all, believe in giving the people what they want, even when the people should have known better.
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Retro Active Television
- An In-Depth Perspective on Classic TV's Social Circuitry
- Narrated by: Herbie J Pilato, Eric Scott
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release Date: 29-08-23
- Language: English
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Kind of a Big Deal
- How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century
- Written by: Saul Austerlitz
- Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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It’s been nearly twenty years since Ron Burgundy burst into movie fans’ lives, reminding San Diego to “stay classy” while lampooning a time gone by—although maybe not as far gone as we might think? In Kind of a Big Deal, comedy historian Saul Austerlitz tells the history of how Anchorman was developed, written, and cast, and how it launched the careers of future superstars like Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd, also setting the stage for a whole decade of comedy to come and influencing films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights, Knocked Up, Superbad, and so many more.
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Kind of a Big Deal
- How Anchorman Stayed Classy and Became the Most Iconic Comedy of the Twenty-First Century
- Narrated by: Barrett Leddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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Padri e figli nel cinema
- Written by: Roberto Campari
- Narrated by: Marco Cacciola
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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Un viaggio affascinante e intenso nelle pellicole che hanno fatto la storia del cinema per esplorare il sentimento della paternità. Affettuosi e gentili, oppure irascibili e brutali, colpevoli o redenti, indulgenti o moralisti, attesi o rimpianti, guerrieri o sconfitti, i tanti padri narrati in questo libro disegnano un unico grande ritratto composto di infiniti volti in cui cercare anche quello della propria famiglia.
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Padri e figli nel cinema
- Narrated by: Marco Cacciola
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release Date: 09-11-22
- Language: italian
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Till Today
- Written by: Pia Wilson, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Orion Pictures,
- Narrated by: April Ryan
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The brutalized body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was published in Jet magazine at the insistence of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Mamie wanted the horrific photograph of her son’s lynched body to be displayed for the world to see, to expose America to its own barbaric acts of racial terror. As such, Emmett’s death and Mamie’s actions afterwards would ignite a crucial moment in the civil rights movement, changing the course of history forever.
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With Great Power
- How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood During the Golden Age of Comic Book Blockbusters
- Written by: Sean O'Connell
- Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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If Hollywood had a superhero throne, Spider-Man would be perched upon it. As the most popular superhero in the world, the web-slinger plays a pivotal role in three of the six highest-grossing film franchises in history: the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the Avengers quadrilogy; and the Spider-Man movies themselves. Spidey has come a long way since Marvel guru Stan Lee first concocted him in 1962, but until now his cinematic journey has not been fully documented.
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With Great Power
- How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood During the Golden Age of Comic Book Blockbusters
- Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release Date: 01-11-22
- Language: English
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The Academy and the Award
- The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Written by: Bruce Davis
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
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For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from outside have always had a glancing, cursory quality. Yet the story of the Academy’s creation and development is a critical piece of Hollywood’s history. Now that story is finally being told.
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The Academy and the Award
- The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release Date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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